CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 244, 10 December 1900, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(Bx elbctbic Telbokii'h.—Copntaare.) BOER- WAR. THE AFRIKANDER BOKO OOMFSRKNOX. 3000 DILKQATES PSBBSMT. VIOMNT SOKMKJ ("» nm association) Beoelwd 8, 8.80 u. Lomkw, Dtoaftbr 7, Tho annual Oongnas of tfc* kandar Bund it being held at Worcester! Cape Colony. Mr. J. Dt brothar of Sir J. H. Da Villietm. nu3 Justioe and President of tin Obm Legislative Council, pivtided livered a temperate address, bat Mr, Do Voi>s, who recently fomiml gn the Afrikander deputation to EadwL abused the English Liberal* far their pusillanimous lines of policy. Some violent speeches were deli v«n4 and resolutions in favour of ing the independence of the Bmt Republics were voted -fth s minis tie Pere were 7000 delegat* nrMMI and it is claimed that tha represented 120,000. Mr. Oronwright Sohreiner amoMd a piesion of faryaod resentntmtlbjrr*! pnat.ing his wild charges again* titf British troops, and heaping vintat abuse on Sir Alfred Milnw. Most of the speakers repudiated Ai charge of an Afrikander rtfcsllkm

A LETTER WHICH DID HOT fBOV> TSUHJ TUB BOERB SPOILING fOS A WW, (Rooeimd 8. t.SOua,) Ifflwoif Deoraber 7; 1 A Blue Book contain* a letter fomd in the L&udroat's office at BbmfooWau written by Mr. Blignant, brottedf the late Orangd Btate Seentaer. % writer expressed hi* few thai Mr» Ohamberla'n " would cheat us mt of • WOT and thft nnn«/|mmt ftppffrtnntt. jf annexing Oh pa Colony and frtal —J forming a Republican United Stilw of South Africa." He **>-+ forty-six thousand lighten w«m pledged to die or secure toe indeoewlence df South Africa.

FUTURR QOVBKMKINT OF *HI ITKANBVAAL AMD O&iNGS OQr/im»

IMPORTANT SPSBOH ttV MB GHAHBB&LiUI.

(Beoelred 9,4.64jua.) r Jjord Salisbury's remarks with n ference to the settlement of the warm interpreted on the Continent wijtal intimation that Great Britain will nek accept arbitratian.

Mr. Emmott, member for moved an amendment to tin x m-Eeply, recommending that with • 5 view to promoting pacification it vg|l| " be well to give an early goarankee HUh -1 ' regard to the liberty and ptopsrtv of ' *urrenderere. Mr. Charles TYsisJjbji. ' seconded the motion. Both uMtt* adopted a conciliatory lieving it was oertain that -ftraint treat ment would shorten the war. 1 Mr. ChaaHerlain ia a powwfedaud equally oouciliatory spoteh sbowod tint (•he spirit of tho amendment was eca* itodied in Lord Roberts' prooiuMtioK. The Generals who had to faoe ruetflk warfare wore entitled to dtttl summarily' - with men wlia iudalged alternately fa sniping and as apparently peaorfal tgrimjlturftlists; bat tUe rightwwUd < be sparingly exercised. He hoped tw iore Bfehruary th»t something in thfn iturcj of civil administration would b» "> mtioJuoed by Sir A. Milaer who wu to fill the position of High sioner and Governor of both ooloeieh A Lieutenant-Governor would t*a»pointed for the Orange Oolony who* form of Government was good, TW xisting machinery would aihrrj possible be retained. ' would early be created, begiiwiuTJT Pretoria, Bloemfontia and Jab?--!?: burg. Local opinion would be law. and customs varied as . sible, Africanders to *2l of administration | t agJjTT Übertvli Uw *. u leadinf |» jw 80lf-Goven». m ,nt ilrnfrsnjrrerted. Uuarges of d»yutation hadbeMfroaifar exaggerated. Farm houMe hadbeel destroyed aolely beoauae of trauonbia jote contrary to law, tad womb fad own deported for their own against marauding baadc un DatfvM.' fie referred to the waalthof the Taiab v vaal aa a souroe of *■-« to COW the claims for losses by the war. Qh ! benefit of amnesty would apply to mat ' Boer leaders, some, however, woulft Ml be permitted to rtmaia. Sir JL i had issued a fresh proclamation glfhw these intentions and has «am 3: by eulogising the bravery aad l.™—*!*of the bulk of the foe*. v Sir H. Campbell R *""*"nnnwMMr Chamberlain's explanatioflebomd tluni was no difference of opinion tiihr—the Government and the OppoaiticA ca the questions raiaod (7 tkiumA. ment.

Mr. Asquith prtiaad th* rrhmi m I modtu vivendi toward* full* «K t Government. He atumsM an mmml to the Boers in the field in the nmaof the Unionists and LibmJi, At Sir H. Oampball-BuiMraaßh suggestion, Mr. Bmmott'a imewUmifc ™ withdrawn.

*&ss«!£sssi£g speech by a national swtwauiL --■* •net with the practical wttal of Hi* whole of th«j Liberal pu%. atthoaafc 'bey advise cauiiou iu the j details. 1

BOERS CATIORB 17,000 SHXKP. DB WJST FOLLOWED Of. MAODONALD AT MOBwy

Received 9, m. „ *<*.'<« K. llMwUfl ..oldiera, AtdMbtJEUf -'"5 De Wet bus moved eut, from OdenkaaL General Ktmyf fr n inr mg, capture! a linipp wagon ammunition. * w